Golovkin outlanded Canelo clearly in the trilogy.

Golovkin won 1 and 2. Canelo won the 3rd fight.

 

The raw numbers don't mean much by themselves. You say Golovkin outlanded Alvarez by 71 punches. That's over 36 rounds so two punches a round is not a major advantage. The power on the punches and the placement of the punches are at least as important. This is one of the reasons I am not too much of a punch stat follower.

As for me, I had Golovkin winning the first fight close and Alvarez winning their third bout. I scored the second fight even.

 

GGG 1, draw 2, Canelo 3

 

GGG clearly won 1. 2 can credibly be scored either way. Canelo clearly won 3.

With GGG past prime from 1 onwards and likely the lighter man in the ring on all 3 occasions, its a good example of the likely better p4p fighter, prime for prime, not being the greater.

Canelo deserves to rank higher due to his superior resume, but I suspect GGG was marginally the better fighter at their respective primes.

 

A fight is scored round-by-round.

The first fight was a GGG win.

The second fight was close, leaning Clenelo. A draw is fine as well.

And the third fight was a Clenelo win albeit GGG finished well.

It was a good Trilogy but GGG still wasted his prime fighting B and C level opponents. Unfortunately. Prime GGG beats the **** out of Clenelo who is one of the most overrated fighters of all time.

 

...Clenelo who is one of the most overrated fighters of all time....aside from CEJ

 

What middleweight did he refuse to fight?

 

GGG won the first two but got robbed. He blew the third by waiting too long to attack.

 

This. GGG won #1 on the front foot. He won #2 on the backfoot. He blew #3 ... might have been able to win it if he'd cranked the heat up a couple of rounds earlier

 

Canelo won the 1st and 2nd fights.
Golovkin won the 3rd fight.

I'm joking.

 

1st fight DRAW. 2nd fight 115-113 Canelo, 3rd fight 116-112 Canelo.